Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Does n't it give you two policies rather than one to batter Mr Earle with , or his colleague ? |
| 32 | As a committed Labour Party member I can not condone nor understand why , with the country suffering from Tory fatigue , the Labour Party does not thrust home its policies rather than become embroiled in this negative smear and counter-smear campaign . |
| 33 | this Swedish consensus is a precedent to the development of certain institutional forms rather than a result of them , and it would be useless for Britain to look to the forms rather than to the antecedent substance . |
| 34 | this Swedish consensus is a precedent to the development of certain institutional forms rather than a result of them , and it would be useless for Britain to look to the forms rather than to the antecedent substance . |
| 35 | Such conventions are common in English education where students are taught to use impersonal and passive forms rather than the first person . |
| 36 | Since substitution and ellipsis are purely grammatical relations which hold between linguistic forms rather than between linguistic forms and their meanings , the details are highly language-specific and are therefore not worth going into here . |
| 37 | Theodor Adorno , on the contrary , has produced what are perhaps the most considered , influential , and lengthy analyses of modernist art ; yet these analyses tend to be formalist , to ignore the realm of popular culture , and to focus rather singularly on the production of cultural forms rather than on the social bases of their reception . |
| 38 | We must entertain doubts about Baden-Powell 's enthusiasm for Hooligans , and the extent to which it represented Edwardian wish-fulfilment rather than real accomplishment . |
| 39 | One example given of a " dream " in this state of relaxed wakefulness reads more like a fantasy of wish-fulfilment rather than a sleeping dream account , although others were remarkably " dreamlike " . |
| 40 | The 300dpi world will probably start to move to 400dpi fairly shortly but the vendors first need to make the move to using outline fonts rather than bitmaps . |
| 41 | The £4.1 billion jump in bank-lending was month was twice the average monthly increase in 1992 , but economists warned that it reflected a rebound rather than new hope that consumers are taking on significantly bigger borrowings to fuel recovery . |
| 42 | Choose a design that hides the bulb effectively and a heavy base to keep it stable . |
| 43 | Proof that these outbursts are overflow or vacuum activities rather than pathological fits can be found by comparing the indoor behaviour of hard-living rural cats , with that of lap-of-luxury town cats . |
| 44 | Even if one does think of self-consciousness as perceiving one 's own activities rather than heeding them ( as one also heeds the perceived ) , there is no obvious reason why one should not be perceiving as thought and emotion what to the eye would be neural process , just as when , with the same experience of temporal change without spatial extension , one hears as sound what one would see as vibrations . |
| 45 | The Schneiderei 's six-member managing committee of writers , musicians and visual artists ( Margaret Bozionek , Heinz Conrads , Jutta Rinas , Ingrid Roscheck , Manos Tsangaris and Thomas Witzmann ) abhor the description ‘ alternative ’ , but the collective 's soft-sell policy by which works are sold to further the gallery 's own activities rather than for profit has helped it to weather the uneasy times faced by traditional commercial galleries . |
| 46 | Culyer ( 1973 ) suggested a possible compromise in order to allocate all inputs ; that is , to allocate in terms of activities rather than in terms of the end product of those activities . |
| 47 | Similarly , Plowden ( 1985 , p. 407 ) complains that the focus is ‘ almost entirely on the costs of governmental activities rather than on their quality ’ . |
| 48 | The concentration on wealth-generating activities rather than social programmes ; this was most apparent in the creation of enterprise zones . |
| 49 | ‘ whether … its members can work as a team while they are apart , contributing to a sequence of activities rather than to a common task , which requires their presence in one place and at one time . ’ |
| 50 | We shall look at these functions in a moment , but it will be useful to think in terms of certain places in the landscape being the foci for single activities rather than a whole range of functions . |
| 51 | They were an adjunct to and lubricant for existing activities rather than part of the supplanting of a traditional culture . |
| 52 | Instruction would be given by the librarian and the class teacher and it would deal mainly in concrete activities rather than abstract theory and should be tied to specific project work . |
| 53 | are most of the programmes are really to do I would say with displacement activities rather than replacement activities . |
| 54 | His theory connects with Mannheim 's ‘ particular ’ conception of ideology rather than his ‘ total ’ conception in that it is concerned with psychological processes . |
| 55 | Characteristically , the patriarchy thesis generates a revolutionary ideology rather than a fatalistic acceptance of determinism and relativism . |
| 56 | All three represent fundamental shake-ups and policy shifts , and as their implementation coincides with a ruthless financial squeeze on local government , the council tax and community care may look like empty statements of ideology rather than meaningful new policies . |
| 57 | This involves changing the verb altogether and replacing it with one that has a similar meaning but can be used in a different syntactic configuration . |
| 58 | • Use skimmed or semi-skimmed milk rather than full-fat milk ; • Use cream less often on desserts and not at all in cooking ; • Have only three or four eggs a week ; • Buy more yogurt and less hard cheese ; • Eat less red meat and trim off the visible fat ; • Eat fewer fatty meat products such as sausages , meat pies , and burgers ; • Cut down on fatty snacks such as crisps ; • Use less pastry in cooking and buy fewer foods that incorporate pastry ; • Use less fat in cooking ; • If you are having a take-away meal such as fish and chips , leave some of the smaller , fattier chips usually found at the bottom of the bag . |
| 59 | It is a more muscular breed and , though the emphasis has always been slightly in favour of milk rather than meat , the breed is continually tested for growth and food conversion rates , especially as veal production is important . |
| 60 | Most consumers ‘ certainly fail to recognise the implications of agricultural practices and policy ’ , such as subsidies for producing and promoting full-fat milk rather than semi-skimmed or skimmed milk , and those for butter and meat . |